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The Animal Trilogy consists of three consecutively released Italian gialli films by Dario Argento: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972).
Oct 30, 2010 · The fact that all three of Argento’s films made in 1970-71 contain an animal in their title suggests that at some point during production of his second film, he or the producers decided to brand them as a trilogy.
- It’S All in Your Head
- The Feminine Fascination
- Man in The Box
- Deviant Chromosomes
- Optical Illusions
One of the things that makes Giallo so compelling is its purely psychological aspects. While thrillers are nothing new, the Italian spin on this genre finds a way to bring together its stories with compelling conclusions often steeped in a mind’s darkest inclinations. In Argento’s Animal Trilogy, he uses creative and quite disturbing ways to approa...
Some might argue that Giallo paints female characters in broad strokes, but the genre never lets its value be defined by such a general concept. Women are actually the heart of the stories, even when there’s a male protagonist seemingly lost amongst the chaos. While some of these heroines and villains play into common stereotypes, they more often t...
Helplessness has always been one of our worst fears. That seeming lack of control, the inability to decide one’s fate—it’s the ultimate horror story. The Bird with the Crystal Plumageis built on the horrifying concept of facing evil without a say in its resolution or destruction. Its instrument of torture proves to be the very things we use to ensu...
For the next title in the Argento’s Animal Trilogy, he forces his characters to answer one difficult question: what makes someone a criminal? Is it instilled in a person as they grow into adulthood or does it lie in the building blocks that make us who we are? Long before the world was obsessed with DNA kits, the hunt for the pieces that make human...
For decades, there was a ridiculous notion that the last image you saw could be captured on the retina. It was a sick delusion perpetrated from cruel experiments and nonsensical conclusions, but the theory was enough to stick in a society desperate to understand the mysteries of existence. The concept itself became a part of pop culture with storie...
Feb 21, 2024 · He’d made a splash at the beginning of the seventies with a series of gialli, stylish Italian crime thrillers, all with animals in the title: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), Cat O’Nine Tails (1971), and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), often referred to as his “animal trilogy,” though they are all narratively unconnected.
Madagascar is a 2005 animated comedy film and the first film in the series. Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath , the film tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals: Alex the lion ( Ben Stiller ), Marty the zebra ( Chris Rock ), Melman the giraffe ( David Schwimmer ) and Gloria the hippo ( Jada Pinkett Smith ).
Oct 21, 2022 · Beginning in 1970, The Animal Trilogy infused the Italian pulp thriller with a heady cocktail of visual spectacle, primal thrills and twisted reality, revitalising the genre and perfecting...
His Dark Materials: Created by Jack Thorne. With Dafne Keen, Kit Connor, Ruth Wilson, Amir Wilson. A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons.
